One Drop of Blood that Divides Us
By Mike Palcic, 6/24/2008 11:01:48 AM

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This is about a criminal trying to hide the crime he's committed; a liar that tries to hide the truth by telling more lies to cover the initial lie, the criminal using this tactic to conceal the crime. In this case, there are witnesses present with evidence to prove the criminal acts. The criminal use his influence and pushes the lie until he actually believes it to be true and gets others to believe what he states is credible. Meanwhile, the witnesses maintain their testimony which is documented and tell their children what they witnessed; knowing the truth about the crimes and who is responsible.

To further cover up the crime, the criminal establishes his own flawed rules. As his lies unravel, the truth emerges and received with great disbelief. Many are in denial for living a lie and feel used. The criminal is too powerful and big for them to do anything so they think by supporting the criminal, they will save face and their interests will be protected. They are looking for the victims to be merciful, forgiving, and let bygones be bygones. They are trying to make the victim feel guilty for the crimes committed against them. It's like the woman who was raped was at fault for being raped.

This is what happened to Hawai'i. Instead of attacking the perpetrator, U.S. Americans are attacking the victims. They feel their loss is greater than the Hawaiians whose country this is, which is under U.S. Belligerent Occupation. They are in disbelief at this revelation and don't wish for it to be true; but one cannot change the facts.

While trying to appear legitimate, the U.S. applies its own rules in attempting to cover its tracks of crime. In their arrogance, the U.S. begins to treat the native Hawaiians like Native Americans, figuring that it worked with them; it should work with the Hawaiians. Setting blood quantum is an American system in reducing its obligation to the native population. This was the intention when they created the Hawaii Homestead Act. They figured that it was a dying race and they were already successful in killing off many Hawaiians which shouldn't take long to get rid of them all. Those who weren’t killed off were depleted by blood through intermarriages which they thought that whatever foreign blood they inherited would dominate their Hawaiian. What was forgotten is that the Hawaiian Kingdom was multi-ethnic and regardless of the amount of Hawaiian blood one has, this was their homeland and the root of their ancestors.

Settlers from the US continent will never have that attachment; nor be able to comprehend that attachment since they severed theirs' to live here with a lifeline connected to the US continent. They should realize they are a neo-immigrant country and their ancestors immigrated to North America. It bugs them that they don't have the roots we have in our own country and that their predecessors left their homeland to settle in a foreign land. Europeans did not go to North America to assimilate with the people there but to be isolationists to force others to assimilate to them, their culture, heritage, and newly developed WASP society of transplants. If you want to stay in Hawai’i, denounce your US citizenship and naturalize to our country’s Polynesian Hawaiian Society.

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OHA benefits lawsuit a dangerous gamble

THE ISSUE The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has won a ruling in favor of its assistance to all Hawaiians.

A federal judge's ruling that supports the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' wide distribution of benefits might be just a temporary victory if the decision is appealed, which seems likely.

Legislation to counter claims that OHA is being indiscriminate in spreading assistance to too many Hawaiians -- instead of focusing only on those with 50 percent or more Hawaiian blood -- might be necessary to keep the agency's programs whole. Though the Akaka Bill addresses Hawaiian self-determination, another measure to clarify the breadth of beneficiaries would preclude attempts to limit OHA's services to the smaller population.

U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway dismissed a lawsuit filed by five men -- Virgil Day, Mel Ho'omanawanui, Josiah Ho'ohuli, Patrick Kahawaiola'a and Samuel Kealoha -- who alleged OHA had violated the federal Hawaii Admissions Act by using public land trust funds to benefit fellow Hawaiians of lesser blood quantum.

The men objected to OHA's spending to support the Akaka Bill, the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. that represents Hawaiians in legal matters, a program for gifted and talented Hawaiian children and another to encourage social and economic self-sufficiency.

Mollway, however, ruled that the agency's trustees have broad discretion and are exercising "reasonable fiduciary judgment," recognizing that extending benefits casts a wider range for betterment of their constituents. Further, the judge said exclusionary methods could lead to "ridiculous results."

As an example, the judge said, if the 50 percent principle was applied for medical care benefits, how would they relate to a child whose father is 75 percent Hawaiian and its mother 25 percent Hawaiian? Father and child would qualify, but "would plaintiffs object to the benefits flowing to the Hawaiian mother?"

Why the plaintiffs are seeking exclusion isn't clear, but their challenge of OHA could result in dismantling of programs for Hawaiians across the board. In denying others access to benefits, they might find themselves denied, too.